The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-23

THE NORTHWEST.


A petition has been presented the Fremont
ooaSu OF education recommending that the
fecess be abolished. 1t is thought the plan
Will DO adopted January 1.
The ladies Of Fremont gave . grand charity
ball ct the opera house in that place Wednes-
day evening. About $500 was realiz cd to dis.
tribute among the poor.
According to the late census South Omaha
10 entitled to be . city Of the second class and
u room ss the necessary papers are arranged
acharter will be granted.
Over 1000 acres OF land has already been
leased at Homer over the coal boom there.
The product Of tho mine is developing better
than was ct Arst anticipated.
Two stations have recently been opened on
the Burlington ltne-Archsr, twenty.eIght
miles ives: of Aurora, and ORD, twenty-five
miles west Of Greedy Center.
A valuable find Of coal has been discovered
east OF Homer, in Dakota county. The rein
70 said to be four feet thick, and active opera.
IONS to mine are to commence at once.
The K. DIP. are endcavoriag to orgalizs a
lodge at Meade.
Broken Bow has been mad. c railroad
6toIlUUs
Norfolk is paying from ss to 30 cents and
upwards for corn.
A new k.of r. lodge has recently been cs.
ablished ct Blair.
A 100000 real estate transfer took piece in
Omaha Saturday.
A telephaue line between Beatrice and Fair.
bury is being erected.
Nebraska City will invest 5000 In a nat.
ural gas prospect hole.
The Atnsworth opera house has been fitted
up for church services.
VIM. Dufcy, who stole a watch at Fremont
was caught at Lincoln.
Fremont capitalists will bnck a canning fac.
tory with . bonus Of 5000.
A new postoflce called Wanahta has been
established in Dawes county.
Tn Perkins county republicans met at Mad.
nd Saturday and organized.
Internal revenue collections at the Omsh.
ehtce amounted to 90, 200. IL.
IOWA
Muecatine has just incorporated n contrary,
Tor the construction Of a wagon bridge across
the river at that point.
The Museatine DAt!y Morning News. having
Republican pioclivi,ies, made its first appear.
ance Saturday morning.
Miss May Halliday. of Kcokuk, had her eye
severely burned while using an iron TO cur!
her hair Thursday morning.
Charles Cummtngs, a fl batting bayrio kee,er
At Savanna, has been sentenced to one yeur In
the penitentiary aud fined SIS.
ID. D%onnahue. who has been on TRIAL fer
two weeks at Atlantic, was Monday morning
found guilty Of manslaughter.
JAMS Casey vas killed near Enmetshu,y
last week by being thrown from a cutter aud
. corn shelter falling upon him.
STORMY Jordan, Of ONumwe, the NEST
persistent opponent of prohibition, has filed
Ills intention to submit to the law,
A number OF farmers in Cherokee county
Propose to organic: . grain shipping sssocts-
ton and dispense with m!ddlcmep.
Linn county's senator marketed sve hoss
Saturday which weighed 500 pounds apiece
M which brought him au even SEQ.
CEDAR Rapids people arc loofi & forward 10
entertaining 200 teachers daring the meeting
OF the state association in the holidays.
Nathan Sanders, aged lightweight, died
SUNDAY morning, and his wife, aged eighty
Tour, followed him Tuesday morning. botl,
dying OF old age, q. Grinncll. The aged
coup!e were pioneers there and widely re.
spected.
family In Davenport, which Is afflicted
With diphtheria, has been rcly;rgentirely u,,on
the faith cure, and It was not Known. nf the
presence Of dtphtneria in their household ,,nt,,
application was made to the authorities for 81
burial Permit.
small boy possessing more Than the aver
age prescnce Of mind, fell with one Iey
through q railroad culvert at ID davenport Tues.
Gay evening. and seeing a train approaching
him, laid fat on the ties, thus allowing II 70
pass over him without injury.
Inc district court calendar, giving the
times OF holding court In the various counties
OF the state for the two years 10 come. has
ust becn Issued by the secretary Of state.
DAKOTA.
tlandrcau citizens have raised a b,r,s m
inducs the Duluth railroad 10 build l., .bs+
place.
The governor Of the the terrier, in his last
report places the population at 600 oM
people.
In Deadwoou there e c three men whose
height, united, is just thirteen feet three
inches.
Sioux Falls has expended nearly $4,000
Tor street improvements during the past ssve,
months.
Cass county runs behind its tax receip,s
$4,000 per annum, but on account of return
ing eS6. 600 illegally collected railroad taxes
and loeing 10000 saloon license, there will
be . deficit Of $1,000 for the current yesr.
Tue Sioux Falls Argus.Leader thinks the
city council should dedicate one hill In tim,
place to the use Of coasters ond not acprive
the youths of all their sport.
Legal proceedings have been conmerc.a t.
crj pin the collection Of the excess taxes o,
property in Bridgewater, the valuation of
which the town raised on the buoks NJ tho a.
sessor.
Ayeln Of coal sixteen feet thick has been
found at Whitewood, twelve feet below the
surface, and seventy feet helov another vein
more thar three times as thick. The Goa, is
said to be ~ good as any In the country.
Five msn, aggregating a weight of 1897
pounds. were weighed at Rapid City on Sun.
day.
MINNESOTA.
A stock company las been formed with a
capital stock OF $4,000, at st. Lawrence, for
the building OF a large three story brick blosr
next spring.
Duluth has contracted for an electric light.